Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.

Every taxpayer is well aware of the vast size of our annual defense budget and most of our readers also realize that a large portion of these expenditures go for military electronics.

Semi-permanent mooring anchors ( such as mushroom anchors ) and large ship's anchors derive a significant portion of their holding power from their mass, while also hooking or embedding in the bottom.

) Given the exclusionary and ancestral conception of citizenship held by Greek city-states, a relatively large portion of the population took part in the government of Athens and of other radical democracies like it.

A large portion of his time was also devoted to anatomy, which science was regarded by him as the secret of the art.

Following Schubert's early death in 1828, Diabelli purchased a large portion of the composer's massive musical estate from Schubert's brother Ferdinand.

In the 1820s, the Russian-American Company, which administered a large portion of the North Pacific during a Russian led expansion of the fur trade, resettled many families to the Commander Islands ( currently, within the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia ) and to the Pribilof Islands ( currently in Alaska ), where there are currently established majority Aleut communities.

A large portion of its nearly 2, 000 T-55 tanks fell into disrepair, and eventually almost all of them were scrapped or sold to other countries.

A large portion of this strategy is the privatization of the National Telecommunications Office ( ONATEL ), with additional focus on a rural telephony promotion project.

The cerebellum of mammals contains a large portion ( the neocerebellum ) dedicated to supporting the cerebral cortex, which has no counterpart in other vertebrates.

A large portion of the site is now controlled by the Bletchley Park Trust.

Indirect combat through the use of aircraft and missiles now comprise of a large portion of wars in place of battles, where battles are now mostly reserved for capturing cities.

Nakagawa's defenses were based at Peleliu's highest point, Umurbrogol Mountain, a collection of hills and steep ridges located at the center of Peleliu overlooking a large portion of the island, including the crucial airfield.

After the loss of their capital, according to Strabo, a large portion of the Boii left Italy.

Due to the use of these biological weapons, and the apparent lack of medical advancement necessary to defend surrounding regions from them, widespread epidemics such as the bubonic plague quickly moved across all of Europe, destroying a large portion of its population.

76-91 ), most of which follows the Masoretic Text closely and with Mur XII reproducing a large portion of the text.

Bra-ket notation is widespread in quantum mechanics: almost every phenomenon that is explained using quantum mechanics — including a large portion of modern physics — is usually explained with the help of bra-ket notation.

Finally, the Black and Tans sacked Cork city, on the night of 11 December 1920, destroying a large portion of the city centre.

Given that drug poisoning causes a large portion of patients in a coma, hospitals first test all comatose patients by observing pupil size and eye movement, through the vestibular-ocular reflex.

Even tracing a portion large enough to produce an image takes an inordinate amount of time if the sampling is not intelligently restricted.

Due to the large number of calculations, a work in progress is usually only rendered in detail appropriate to the portion of the work being developed at a given time, so in the initial stages of modeling, wireframe and ray casting may be used, even where the target output is ray tracing with radiosity.

Lake Shore Drive runs adjacent to a large portion of Chicago's lakefront.

Since the 1990s, several novel classes of antiemetics have been developed and commercialized, becoming a nearly universal standard in chemotherapy regimens, and helping to successfully manage these symptoms in a large portion of patients.

In 2022, an explosion of an experimental hyperspace gateway severely damaged the Moon, resulting in a debris ring and meteor bombardments that eradicated a large portion of the Earth's population.

The controllers are a joystick without a base ; the main body is a large hand grip with a triangular " cap " on top, the top being the portion that actually moved for eight-way directional control.

Naturally it will be dictated to a large extent by the shape and size of your land.

It must be conceded that his native land provided Prokofieff with many of the necessary conditions for great creative incentive: economic security and cultural opportunities, incisive idioms, social fermentations for a new national ideology -- a sympathetic public and a large body of performers especially trained to fulfill his purpose.

The large land areas required for oxidation ponds made this type of treatment financially unattractive to the developer.

Giffen advised acceptance of this plan, citing the depressed market for land then prevailing and the large stock of provisions at the plantation.

Hughes supported Gov. Meyner's `` Green Acres '' plan for saving large tracts of open land from the onrush of urban development.

They were the top land predators, sometimes reaching several meters in length, preying on the large insects of the period and many types of fish in the water.

Archipelagos may be found isolated in bodies of water or neighboring a large land mass.

Agrarian parties advocated land reforms to redistribute land on large estates among those who work it.

It has no permanently dry land area, although large parts of the reef become exposed during low tide.

Apart from the city of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory also contains agricultural land ( sheep, dairy cattle, vineyards and small amounts of crops ) and a large area of national park ( Namadgi National Park ), much of it mountainous and forested.

There are three reasons for this population loss: firstly, since the completion of Telli ( a large apartment complex ), the city has not had any more considerable land developments.

The chaotic legal structure and fragmented land ownership combined with a tradition of dividing the land among all the heirs in an inheritance prevented any large scale reforms.

The Governor's main problem was with his own military officers, who wanted large grants of land, which Phillip had not been authorised to grant.

Although it has only 6. 14 percent of Alaska's land area, it is larger than the state of Maine, and almost as large as the state of Indiana.

At the turn of the 19th century, the city of Alameda took a large chunk of Charles Froling's land away to build a street.

In the area, the former seabed is only gently sloped, leading to large areas of land being reclaimed in, geologically speaking, relatively short periods ( decades and centuries ).

Visual beacons range from small, single-pile structures to large lighthouses or light stations and can be located on land or on water.

In 1914 Emilio bought a large amount of land in Ponce, Puerto Rico from successful business man, Narcisus Mage.

A shore, on the other hand, can refer to parts of the land which adjoin any large body of water, including oceans ( sea shore ) and lakes ( lake shore ).

Bairoch points out that, due to sparse population densities that would have persisted in pre-Neolithic, hunter-gatherer societies, the amount of land that would be required to produce enough food for subsistence and trade for a large population would make it impossible to control the flow of trade.

On land, large and diverse plant populations existed.

Another important factor behind Costa Rica's poverty was the lack of a significant indigenous population available for forced labor, which meant that most of the Costa Rican settlers had to work on their own land, preventing the establishment of large haciendas.

Newspapers have reported that the Ministry of Mercantile Marine is ready to support the agreement between Greece, South Korea, Dubai Ports World and China for the construction of a large international container port and free trade zone in southern Crete near Tympaki ; the plan is to expropriate 850 ha of land.